I have a love/hate relationship with the I-shape forms

[SirKicksAlot]

Most of the time, I or the instructor would be demonstrating the technique before the students are expected to execute. Monkey see-monkey do is a very effective communication method. And in the rare cases where there isn't a demonstration first (such as testing), students should be able to figure out from context and from additional clues what exactly I'm looking for.

When you will teach the side kick in your art, will you require everyone to conform to the way you perform the side kick, or will everyone be able to just side kick as they were taught in a previous art? Some may have a rising leg side kick, some a thrusting side kick, some will chamber high at hip aiming at target, some will chamber on opposite inner knee. Will you have a "standard" side kick or will you accept any type of side kick people choose to perform? What I am getting at is if you teach a new student how to do a roundhouse kick, but then some of your transfer students start correcting that student and saying, "back in my old art, we did things this way." It would create a ton of confusion and little conformity. So if you will teach a standard technique, the transfer people would have to learn your way of doing it, so why not just put your own specific name on it? Otherwise it will be a free for all of techniques all with the same name.

 

[Earl Weiss]

Monkey see-monkey do is a very effective communication method.

Effective but since there are 3 types of learners, Visual, Auditory and Tactile, (Although people generally learn all 3 ways some are weaker / stronger in different areas) this only targets visual learners and can provide an issue for auditory learners.
It may be also difficult to - especially for newer students, a student 3 rows back, or someone who just learned a technique differences from what is demonstrate versus what they already now. In the system I practice, there are similar kicks such as Side Piercing / Thrusting, Downward/ Vertical, Reverse hook / turning, Downward / Pick Shape etc.

 

[isshinryuronin]

Much of this problem can be solved the old Okinawan way - Just have fewer kicks:

1. low kick
2. lower kick
3. slightly higher kick

OK, I guess that should wrap things up.

 

[SirKicksAlot]

Much of this problem can be solved the old Okinawan way - Just have fewer kicks:

1. low kick
2. lower kick
3. slightly higher kick

OK, I guess that should wrap things up.

Seriously, I am looking for an art like this. Don't mean to divert the thread, but tell me about kicking in Isshin Ryu. How many kicks, which ones are trained, etc.

 

[skribs]

Effective but since there are 3 types of learners, Visual, Auditory and Tactile, (Although people generally learn all 3 ways some are weaker / stronger in different areas) this only targets visual learners and can provide an issue for auditory learners.
It may be also difficult to - especially for newer students, a student 3 rows back, or someone who just learned a technique differences from what is demonstrate versus what they already now. In the system I practice, there are similar kicks such as Side Piercing / Thrusting, Downward/ Vertical, Reverse hook / turning, Downward / Pick Shape etc.

What I mean is, if someone sees me do a basic front snap kick, they're not going to assume I mean to do a jump spinning hook kick.

At beginner levels, details are less important. Muscle memory with the basic movements is more important, the details can be refined later. At advanced levels, students should be capable of doing a technique close to what I want, and then I give them feedback so they can get closer to what I want.

There will be visual, auditory, and tactile learning involved. I'm just not specifically pattern matching that you have to do it the same way I say it every time. If I do that, then I very quickly limit the amount of people who can teach based on who can memorize specific vocabulary. I'd lose out on instructors with a high degree of conceptual understanding that may not have precise terminology. I'd also get people focused more on memorizing the vocabulary than on improving the technique.

 

[isshinryuronin]

Seriously, I am looking for an art like this. Don't mean to divert the thread, but tell me about kicking in Isshin Ryu. How many kicks, which ones are trained, etc.

The main kicks within the curriculum/doctrine (often done while grabbing the opponent):

front snap kick to groin/bladder
jumping/double front kick
downward thrusting side kick to knee
oblique thrust kick to inside thigh (if opp. is in rt. lead, your rt. sole is the weapon, sort of like a horizontal stomp).
(Can also be used as a stomp to knee or instep when in very close range.)
side snap kick
knee strike

others:

roundhouse kick to body
back kick
inside crescent

There are no flying, spinning or head kicks in the system, although sport competition has altered tactics in modern karate. Use of kicks will vary from school to school.